The Joseph M. Tronsky XXII Memorial Annual International Conference
Indo-European Comparative Linguistics and Classical Philology will be held on June 18–20, 2018.
Papers are accepted until March 20, 2018.

The International Conference “Russian Verb” on 15–17 November 2017.
The abstracts are accepted until April 30, 2017.
The programme and the abstracts are available.

The Joseph M. Tronsky XXI Memorial Annual International Conference
Indo-European Comparative Linguistics and Classical Philology
was be held June 26–28, 2017. The programme and proceedings are available.

13th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars: Call for Papers

The Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia) is
pleased to announce the 13th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars, which will be
held in Saint Petersburg, 24–26 November 2016.

Submissions from young researchers (35 years old and younger) working in all areas of linguistic
typology and grammatical theory are welcome.

A thematic session on predicate-argument structure is planned as a part of the conference
schedule. We invite all researchers working on problems related to this topic, regardless of
language material or theoretical framework.

Each talk selected for presentation will be allotted 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of
discussion. The official languages of the conference are Russian and English, and abstracts can be
written in either language. The deadline for abstract submission is 11 September 2016. Anonymous
abstracts (not exceeding 4000 characters, including references) in .doc/.docx/.rtf format should
be sent to the following email address: youngconfspb@gmail.com, with “ABSTRACT” stated as the
email subject. The following information should be provided in the body of the e-mail:

title of the abstract,

author’s or authors’ first and last names, and affiliation(s),

e-mail address and phone number.

Please specify whether you intend to participate in the thematic session.

If you use non-standard fonts, please attach them to the e-mail and send an additional copy of your abstract in .pdf format.

Each author may be involved in no more than two abstracts, and no more than one single-authored
abstract.

The decision of the Organizing Committee on the acceptance/rejection of submissions will be
communicated to the authors no later than 1 October 2016.

There is no participation fee.

The Organizing Committee intends to collect articles based on the conference talks and offer them
to the Editorial Board of the Acta linguistica Petropolitana
to be published as a section of an issue in 2017 or
2018. The intended deadline for submission of articles is 1 February 2017. The more detailed
information will be sent to authors in October 2016.

Invited Speakers

Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley), “Basic event structure: states and endpoints (with a first attempt at a corpus study)”